The culture clash at the center of New York’s measles outbreak

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🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Lenny Bernstein on New York City’s mandatory vaccination order; Juliet Eilperin on how the military is approaching climate change differently than the White House; and Ryan Pfeffer on what it’s like to die on “Game of Thrones.”

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.9	Washington Post is Colby.
0:07.4	Yeah.
0:10.6	Hi, Stephanie McCrements from the Washington Post.
0:13.6	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Marguine Powers.
0:18.8	It's Friday, April 12th.
0:23.0	Today fighting the measles outbreak, why the military is weighing in on climate change,
0:29.1	and what it's like to die on Game of Thrones.
0:35.6	We're here in Williamsburg today to deal with a very serious situation.
0:40.8	This is the epicenter of a measles outbreak that is very, very troubling and must be dealt
0:51.9	with immediately.
0:53.9	There are already quite a few cases, 285 cases since the outbreak began in October.
1:01.4	Medical authorities believe there are actually quite a few more than that.
1:05.1	This is happening in front of our eyes.
1:07.1	Measles were eradicated in the year 2000, actually, from the United States.
1:12.1	And then it picked up again.
1:13.6	And here we are again with so many cases.
1:16.0	So people tend to forget that vaccines are effective because they don't see those diseases
1:20.7	anymore.
1:21.7	Amy Bernstein, I'm a health and medicine reporter for the post.
1:25.1	Lenny has spent the last few days in New York, reporting on this outbreak and the people
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